| A | B |
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| color | one of many ways to describe how things look (e.g. red, blue, yellow) |
| floating | sits on the surface of a liquid |
| freezing | to change into a solid by getting colder |
| melting | to change from a solid to a liquid by getting warmer |
| shape | one of the many ways to describe how things look based on the outline of the object |
| sinking | to move downward below the surface of a liquid |
| size | how big or small something is |
| textures | how something feels or look |
| weight | the lightness or heaviness of an object |
| centimeters | metric unit of measure for length |
| inches | a standard unit of measure for length |
| length | the measured distance from one end to the other end of an object |
| measure | to find the size or amount of an object |
| liquid | anything that takes the shape of its container |
| nonstandard units | the use of everyday things to measure objects (e.g. paperclips, pencils, blocks) |
| standard units | a unit of measurement that is the same everywhere and does not change |
| solid | anything that holds its own shape |
| motion (object) | an object changing its location |
| matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
| mixture | when two or more things are combined, but the things do not change (e.g. cement, trail mix, salad) |
| physical properties | how something looks, smells, feels (e.g. color, texture, floating, weight, odor) |
| pure substance | matter that cannot be separated into other kinds of matter by any physical process |
| Celsius | a standard unit of measure of temperature (metric) |
| dimensions | measurement of the size of an object (length, width, height) |
| elasticity | ability to go back to the original shape or size after being stretched, pressed, or squeezed together |
| Fahrenheit | a standard unit of measure of temperature (nonmetric) |
| mass | a property of an object that is a measure of the amount of matter an object has |
| quantitative | the amount or number of something |
| temperature | the measure of how hot or cold something is |
| volume | amount of space an object takes up |
| weight | the measure of the force of gravity |
| centi | prefix meaning 100 |
| kilo | prefix meaning 1,000 |
| liter | a standard unit of measure of volume (metric) |
| meter | a standard unit of measure of length (metric) |
| metric | a standard system of measurement |
| milli | prefix meaning one thousandth |
| gas | matter that takes the shape and volume of its container (e.g. air) |
